Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-09-24

such as seeks out dlsease-breedlnS Nth IN
every quarter, and destroys it to the utter
most limit of human ability.
THE FAIR.
The State Fair, which comes to close
to-day for the year 1887, has been a splen-
did success in all respects. 1t viii not be
forgotten that forecasts of failure were
made by influences that for no other APP
parent reason than that Of " cussedness "
assailed the management. So, too, the
Mechanics Institute Fair directory at San
Francisco left no means unemployed to
withdraw from the State Board of Agri-
culture the support the people have been
accustomed to give the State Fair, by con-
tribution Of exhibits and by attendance
Even Oakland was despoiled of its Dis
trict Society Fair, which was carted over
to San Francisco, and made weak tender
to the Institute Fair. In that connec-
ton it is worthy of being noted that the
law was violated in one respect. The Act
Of April, 1880, providing for District Ag-
ricultural Societies, sets apart Alameda,
Contra Costa, and San Francisco as Dis
trict No. /, and provides for the organiza-
ton Of an Agricultural Society therein, and
declares it when formed " a State institu-
ton" Section II provides for the hold
ing of animal fairs by District societies,
but there is attached this proyiso, which
must be taken as the hinge upon which
their existence depends, or at least the
turning point, passing beyond which they
incur the liability of disarmament by the
State and forfeiture of any privileges I'M
der the law, including the money appro-
priated by the State in aid of District fairs:
They shall provide an annual fair or exhibition
by the Association of all the industries and in
dustrial products in the district at such time
| and place as they deem advisable provided,
that no District Fair shall be held III any of the
| districts at the same time as the State Fair.
Yet, in the lace Of this provision the
| Golden Gate Fair adjunct to the Me-
chanics' Institute Exhibition, was held
over on the first three days Of the State
Fair.
But these things are now of the past
the efforts to cripple the State Fair have
actually resulted in giving it still more of
public support and in. insuring its still
greater success. Whether this verdict will
be respected by the San Francisco manage
mcnt of the Institute remains TO he
seen.
And it matters little. There must he no
more attention given to the private syndi-
cate engineering that fair. The State
Board of Agriculture must move indie
pendently of it, assured that nothing that
all-advised private body can do will in the
slightest degree injure the State Fair.
The Board must cease to be ANNOYED bv
the petty assaults upon it, and pay no sort
of attention to the snarling of those who
cannot control it. 1t should continue
to act with an eye single to the best inter-
ests of the Society without turning to re-
buke petty assailants.
The expense of the Board ought TO, and
probably will, lead il to place the fair two
weeks earlier next year. 1t is the general
complaint to-day of the country exhibitors
that the fair came on too late to enable
them 10 make the best exhibits. Fruit and
grape interests demand an earlier date, and
it viii unquestionably be conceded This
change will tend to secure more and better
exhibits, and to enable larger number
Of people to attend, as the fear of the ap-
proach Of rain keeps many at home at the
close of September who would attend the
last week in August and the first week in
September.
The State Board ought to feel greatly
encouraged to project the fair upon still
broader plane, to widen the scheme and
enlarge the sphere of its action. Epr in
stance, TO still further improve the prem
ium list, by still greater separation of
California manufactures from the posi- |
bIlity of being thrown into competition in |
the fair with imported exhibits; to offer |
stronger inducements to California inven- |
tors and discoveries, and especially should |
the Board give its attention to the en- |
largement of the county exhibit" branch |
of the fair. There are fifty-two counties
IN the State; there should be thirty of |
them represented in the fair mt least, and |
all if possible. 1t would be a supreme
contamination of success if 1.-The county |
exhibits were worked up" until they |
outgrew the capacity of Horticultural |
hall, and necessitated an annex on the
north, similar to that constructed on the
south of the Pavilion. Means to this end |
have already been uggested-indeed, they
were made public through these columns
three years ago, and in a measure were
acted upon this year-that is, the early
sending out of the Society's agents to or
ganize local effort in each county to secure
at the fair Agents of in
telligence and good address can do this,
and the money paid them would be well
expended.
The State Fair may be said to have now
passed the period when any doubts as to
It's future success can be reasonably enter
tanned. Its Endorsement by the people,
their practically unanimous verdict of APP
proyal and satisfaction expressed during
the past two weeks, the number in which
they have attended and the unusually wide
territory they have represented, the Diving
out of sectional iealousies all give encour-
agement to the Directory of the most sub
stantial and satisfying character.
NO CURE YET,
Some months ago the REcoRD-UNIoN |.
gave detailed and hopeful accounts of the
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